Royal Mint Gold hopes to drag investing in gold bullion into the 21st century Draw a Venn diagram of gold bugs and bitcoin fanatics and the odds are that you’d pretty much have a perfect …
Royal Mint to bring “blockchain bullion” to gold investors
Category: Gold
I’m not wildly excited about gold in 2017 – but I just can’t be bearish
So today we turn our attention to the alluring, the lustrous, the irresistible metal that is gold. What next? Up? Down? Sideways? What really matters for gold – and everything else – this year As …
Was 2016 a false dawn for gold?
In the first half of 2016, it shone like no other asset class. It rose, rose and rose again. Come the second half, it’s hard to find anything as awful. Welcome to another year in …
Gold bumps around – but hang onto it for insurance
Gold jumped by more than 5% on the news of a Trump victory. But the bounce hasn’t lasted. The yellow metal promptly sank to a six-month low. Trump’s conciliatory victory speech fuelled hopes that his …
Why I sold some of my gold when Donald Trump won
Gold and gold stocks are on a short-term “sell” signal From an investment point of view, I must confess I have been wrong-footed by the Donald Trump win. I had a bet on him, so that …
What will the US election mean for gold?
Will we see another President Clinton? It looks like it’s going to be Hillary. At least, that’s what the markets decided yesterday, in the wake of the FBI announcement that her emails showed no criminal …
Banks make a dash for gold
Are central bankers more worried than they let on about how this great monetary experiment of quantitative easing and negative interest rates might end? According to a new study by the Official Monetary and Financial …
1990: the year Brexit became inevitable
When did Brexit become inevitable? Most people would put the answer at some point in the early summer. Not so, says fixed income specialist Adrian Hull of Kames Capital. A better answer is 1990. That …
Gold bugs rejoice – central bankers think you’re on to something
Central banks are piling in to gold Central banks have got the economy and markets covered. They know what they’re doing. Their theories are backed up by decades of academic research and expert advice. Expert …
Why the case against gold is wrong
Central banks don’t need to dig to get their hands on more gold It’s no secret that I am a big believer in gold. But today I want to take a look at the case against gold. Starting …